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Harvard's United Front

Barnes, Joseph | September 26, 1936 issue

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To the surprise of almost no one, the ambitious plan of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on its three-hundredth birthday to synthesize the specialized branches of modern scholarship into a unified and coherent system of thought and belief progressed no farther than the titles of the symposia. The very organization of the symposia in the social sciences and the humanities represented a striking departure from the traditional procedure of learned congresses. The conference moved as a whole unit to a group of symposia on authority and the individual.

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